certainty

Definition

  • noun: the state of being or feeling certain about something
  • noun: something that is 'certain'
  • synonyms: clearness, lucidity, fixity

Examples

  • His victory in the election is 'almost a certainty'. [=it is nearly certain/definite that he will win the election]

  • It is difficult to say 'with certainty' [=in a certain or definite way] which of the plays was written first.

  • Scientists still do not know with any degree of 'certainty' why the disease spread so quickly.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I'd like to know what Maya thinks. We're all incorporating her assessment into ours. A hundred percent he's there. Okay, fine, percent 'cause I know certainty freaks you guys out, but it's a hundred. They're all cowed. - What do you think of the girl? - I think she's fucking smart. (..)
    2012 Zero Dark Thirty
  • (..) Now I remember Iraq WMD, very clearly. I fronted that. And I can tell you the case for that, was much stronger than this case. A fucking "yes" or a "no". We don't deal in certainty, we deal in probability. And I'd say there's a percent probability he's there. I concur, percent. (..)
    2012 Zero Dark Thirty